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largely on the strength of Will Smith's engaging performance as the rookie partner of a secret agent (Tommy Lee Jones) assigned to keep tabs on Earth-dwelling extra-te...
largely on the strength of Will Smith's engaging performance as the rookie partner of a secret agent (Tommy Lee Jones) assigned to keep tabs on Earth-dwelling extra-te...
Men in Black - Various
Former Coen brothers cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld has carved out a nice, if unlikely,
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niche as one of the '90s most consistently succesful directors (The Addams Family, Get Shorty), and the megahit alien spoof Men in Black only enhanced that reputation. The film's quirky MIB orchestral score by Danny Elfman is represented here by just two cuts; the feel-good hip-hop grooves of star Will Smith, Snoop Doggy Dogg, A Tribe Called Qwest, and others that take center stage instead. Still, a more convincing argument for "positive rap" would be hard to imagine. --Jerry McCulley
Men in Black
Former Coen brothers cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld has carved out a nice, if unlikely,
... more
niche as one of the '90s most consistently succesful directors (The Addams Family, Get Shorty), and the megahit alien spoof Men in Black only enhanced that reputation. The film's quirky MIB orchestral score by Danny Elfman is represented here by just two cuts; the feel-good hip-hop grooves of star Will Smith, Snoop Doggy Dogg, A Tribe Called Qwest, and others that take center stage instead. Still, a more convincing argument for "positive rap" would be hard to imagine. --Jerry McCulley
Sequel please Review ofMen In Black (Collectors Edition) (Wide Screen)by
dreamstar70
Advantages: Good SFX, sound, Smith & Jones, direction Disadvantages: too short, thin characterisation, waste of Fiorentino talents
...with a busy script.
Men In Black is just such a comedy, played very firmly with tongue-in-cheek and not to be taken at all seriously. The story is simple yet very rich & entertaining (although it also received a lot of bad press from some quarters because it was seen as racist - an allegory for repatriating illegal immigrants from the US!)
The two lead stars, Will Smith & Tommy-Lee Jones, don't have to stretch themselves too much, acting wise, ... ...Smith who was really only continuing his character mannerisms from where Independence Day left off.
I was quite surprised with TLJ, I've never really thought of him as being the comedy-film-type, but he plays his role with a great deal of mellowed drollery, not letting Smith's antics wind him up too much, which is typical of most buddy partnerships in comedy movies (Lethal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hours etc)
The support from Rip Torn & Vincent ...
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18.01.2001
New 2 Disc MIB DVD Review ofMen In Black (Collectors Edition) (Wide Screen)by
rhyskingston
Advantages: Great features Disadvantages: mmm?
You must buy this film. This new two disc box set combines the great movies with tons of extras including Documentary: Metamorphosis of MIB Character Animation Studies, Extended/Alternate Scenes, Music Videos, Storyboard Comparisons, Talent Files, Trailers, Tunnel Scene Deconstruction, Commentary featuring Barry Sonnefeld and Tommy Lee Jones, Production notes, CD-ROM and Web links, Art Gallery featuring over 1,000 images of conceptual art and production ... ...Industrial Light and Magic Team; Three Scene Editing workshops; Edgar Bug Fight Scene Deconstruction, Creatures: Concept to Completion; Widescreen and Full Screen Presentations, Digitally Re-mastered Audio and Anamorphic Video. Dolby Digital 5.1. Soundtrack Languages English, French, German Subtitles Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish So you know ...
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24.09.2000
Here come the ..... Review ofMen In Black (Collectors Edition) (Wide Screen)by
KingHerrod
Advantages: Funny Disadvantages: None
Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Aliens. This is a very good film, with Smith and Jones playing agents in a secret alien monitoring organisation. Except they monitor Aliens actually on the Earth. All is not well as an Alien race of Bugs kills a prince form another planet and the Earth is threatened with destruction. You know who has to save the day. Despite this deranged plot, the film carrys it off with Smith cracking great one liners and a real ...
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MiB Hot Stuff Review ofMen In Black (Collectors Edition) (Wide Screen)by
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...this type of film, but Men In Black really did something for me. The film has everything - a good plot, great actors, good scenery and effects and a good soundtrack. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones play the parts of two MiB agents tracking down a mysterious alien (a bug) that is very violent and wants to return home using abandoned space ships in Manhattan. The film is comic and a little violent (maybe some young children would be disturbed by a few ...
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Advantages: It's over quickly Disadvantages: Weak, gross, not enough laughs
...The bad alien that the Men In Black were pursuing just grossed me out, and the film was badly written, without either enough tension or laughs. I wouldn,t recommend it to anyone, it was a rather poor outing for Tommy Lee Jones, and worse than usual from Will Smith, whose success in Hollywood has always mystified me. ...
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Actor(s): Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn, John Alexander, Jonathan Gries, Carel Struycken, Mike Nussbaum, Tony Shalhoub, Fredric Lane, David Cross, Sergio Calderon, Siobhan Fallon, Kent Faulcon, Bernard Gilkey, Richard Hamilton, Sean Whalen, Michael Willis
Director(s): Barry Sonnenfeld
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Classification: Parental Guidance
Production Year: 1997
Running Time: 1 hour 34 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: They are the best kept secret in the universe and work for a highly funded yet unofficial government agency. They work in secret and dress in black... they are the MEN IN BLACK.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 29/07/2002
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CDR 24510
Editor: Jim Miller
Barcode: 5035822451032
Production Designer: Bo Welch
Screenwriter: Ed Solomon, Steven Spielberg
Creator: Lowell Cunningham
Composer: Danny Elfman
Featured: Steven Spielberg
Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald
Director of Photography: Donald Peterman
Producer: Walter F. Parkes, Steven Spielberg, Laurie MacDonald
Author: Lowell Cunningham
Voice: Danny Elfman
Special Effects: Industrial Light and Magic, Rick Baker, Cinovation Studios, VisionArt Design & Animation, XFX Images
Costume Designer: Mary E. Vogt
DVD Description
In the 1950s a super-secret government agency was formed to monitor and police the activities of extraterrestrial aliens on the planet Earth. Some 40 years later a founding father of the agency, Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), finds himself with a new smart-mouthed partner fresh from the NYPD who is soon dubbed Agent Jay (Will Smith). Their first mission is to save the Earth from destruction by a giant insectlike alien (Vincent D'Onfrio) that, incidentally, drives an exterminator's truck. Armed with their matching Ray-Bans, skinny ties, and space-age weapons that Jay barely understands--he calls the Neuralyzer the "flashy thing"--the new duo begin another average day of fighting intergalactic terrorists. An amazingly hip and terribly clever movie that riffs on everything from E.T.--THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL to CASABLANCA, this Barry Sonnenfeld film is based on the equally savvy comic book by Lowell Cunningham.
Special Features: Visual Commentary Featuring Barry Sonnenfeld And Tommy Lee Jones, Character Animation Studies Using Angles, Extended And Alternate scenes, Storyboard Comparisons, Original Featurette, Documentary Metamorphosis Of Men In Black, Music Video, Theatrical Trail
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Stereo
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English French German Dolby Digital Stereo English
Professional reviews
Review: "...Dryly clever....Extraordinarily ambitious, with all-star design and special-effects talent and a genuinely artful visual style..." (New York Times, p.C9, 01/07/1997)
"...The out-there premise is irresistible.... Effects master Rick Baker whips up a swell array of oddball creatures great, small and just plain strange..." -- 4 out of 4 stars (USA Today, p.1D, 01/07/1997)
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